HALSEY BREAKING BENJAMIN DESTROYER THE HADEN TRIPLETS CASPIAN MANIC AURORA HAVE WE MET FAMILY SONGBOOK ON CIRCLES CAPITOL HOLLYWOOD RECORDS MERGE RECORDS TRIMETER RECORDS TRIPLE CROWN RECORDS Grammy Award-nominated, multi-platinum artist Halsey Aurora features reimagined versions of the multi- Destroyer’s Dan Bejar initially conceived of Have We The Family Songbook is a tribute to The Haden Triplets’ On Circles serves as the first new music from Caspian follows-up her chart-topping 2017 album Hopeless platinum band’s biggest and most popular songs – all Met as a Y2K album. Bejar assigned frequent producer – Petra, Tanya, and Rachael – American heartland in four years and marks the most organic writing and Fountain Kingdom and its hit singles “Now or Never” of them stripped back (yet soaring) and featuring very and bandmate John Collins the role of layering synth heritage. The album includes four recently unearthed recording sessions in the Massachusetts-based six and “Bad at Love” with her hotly-anticipated third special guests, including Lacey Sturm (ex-Flyleaf), and rhythm sections over demos sung at his kitchen songs by their grandfather, Carl E. Haden, friend to piece’s 15-year history. “I’ve grown weary of reading studio album, Manic. The release is a direct reflection of Scooter Ward (Cold), Adam Gontier (ex-Three Days table while his family was asleep. Bejar soon realized the Carter Family, Porter Wagoner and other country about bands discussing the renewing, rehabilitative the pop star’s bipolar disorder and was written entirely Grace), Spencer Chamberlain (Underoath) and Michael the pre-millennial sonic template was abrasive to icons. The songs – “Who Will You Love,” “Ozark Moon,” properties their most recent [album] has had on while in a manic state. Despite the album’s dark pretext, Barnes (Red). Highlights include their new track, “Far Destroyer’s own, and the idea of a concept was silly “Memories of Will Rogers,” “Grey Mother Dreaming” them,” says guitarist/keyboardist Phillip Jamieson of Halsey uses Manic as a chance to her most ambitious Away,” “Dear Agony,” which just celebrated its 10th anyway – so he abandoned it, simply instructing Collins – were written during the Depression when he was in the mindset the band had going into recording On music yet. Turgid RnB runs up against expansive Disney- year anniversary in September 2019, as well as “So to “Make it sound cool.” That part was easy. But they his 20s Other notable songs include, “Every Time I Circles. “On Circles is not that record.” Not that the like orchestrations, distorted Beach Boys harmonies, Cold” and “Red Cold River.” Founder/frontman Ben also made it dark, occasionally scary (serial killers have Try” (written by the Triplets’ brother, Josh Haden), process Caspian broken – saying that the album’s stadium-sized rockers, and, with “Finally / Beautiful Burnley calls Aurora “a celebration of our incredible replaced poets and painters), and applied a curious Kanye West’s “Say You Will,” and Americana standards lead single, “Flowers of Light,” finds “the intersection Stranger,” a gorgeous and spare ballad on acoustic fans” both old and news. “We’ve always shared a ending (and cool guitars!). What it all means is still up like “Wayfaring Stranger,” “I’ll Fly Away,” “Wildwood between propulsive, relentless energy and a trance guitar. And while Halsey’s not afraid to explore recent unique emotional connection to our music with our in the air – but you’ll enjoy the many listens it’ll take to Flower,” and “Pretty Baby.” The Family Songbook also like sense of reverie. It’s also a hell of a lot of fun to relationships, Manic is a beautiful and bold accounting fans,” he continues. “And this album [pays tribute] to get closer to the “truth.” features contributions from Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz, Doyle play.” Produced by Will Yip (Code Orange, Defeater, of her own emotional well-being – and taking control. those dark times and euphoric ones.” Bramhall II, Don Was, Larry Taylor, and Woody Jackson. Quicksand, Turnstile). TORRES DAN DEACON FRANCES QUINLAN POLICA KIRK WINDSTEIN SILVER TONGUE MYSTIC FAMILIAR LIKEWISE WHEN WE STAY ALIVE DREAM IN MOTION MERGE RECORDS DOMINO RECORD CO. SADDLE CREEK RECORDS MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES ENTERTAINMENT ONE A person whose words are so potent that they cause Dan Deacon’s most emotionally open and transcendent Frances Quinlan has built an identity for herself When Poliça’s Channy Leaneagh fell off her roof in He’s a man Pitchfork calls “a pioneer” – with a the people and beings around them to vibrate is said record, Mystic Familiar’s eleven kaleidoscopic tracks over the past decade as the lead songwriter and early 2018, leaving her in a brace with limited mobility voice recognized by Rolling Stone as the sound of to have a “silver tongue.” It’s apt, then, that Mackenzie of majestic synth-pop exponentially expand his front-woman of the Philadelphia-based band Hop for months. Yet Poliça’s fourth album, When We resilience. Now, Kirk Windstein, wielder of the sludge Scott—who has spent the 2010s making boundary- sound with unfettered imagination and newfound Along. With a renewed openness to explore different Stay Alive, is not about one debilitating accident: It’s sledgehammer and unmistakable earthmoving bellow pushing pop as TORRES — has chosen to call her new vulnerability. It’s the first album where Deacon presents sounds, Quinlan supplements her typical guitar-based about the redemptive power of rewriting your story in of Crowbar, stomps forward as a solo artist for the very album just that. TORRES’ music has long navigated the his natural singing voice, unprocessed and with only instrumentation with synthesizers, digital beats, harps, order to heal. While half of When We Stay Alive was first time. On a Dream In Motion, the inaugural effort space between the physical and the metaphysical, and minimal accompaniment – a vulnerable shift in a strings, and a wide variety of keyboards. Quinlan is written before the fall, the tracks meld together in a from his eponymously monikered incarnation, the Silver Tongue faces that conflict head-on, fastidiously songbook abundant with characters, metaphors, and a voyaging songwriter. Throughout Likewise, she redemptive whole – enhanced by the heavy synths and Dark Lord of the Southern Riff stretches his creative chronicles the impulses that make up desire — distorted vocals. Mystic Familiar’s lead track, “Become confronts what confounds her in the hopes that she punctuating beats of Poliça co-founder and producer wings as he introduces new emotional depth and sonic wrestling with the highs and lows of what “being in A Mountain” – a stirring, dramatic introduction that will come out on the other side with a better sense Ryan Olson. Those written before the fall relay ideas texture that strengthen, rather than tarnish, the metal love” might mean over heady guitars, enveloping recalls 70s Philip Glass, modern Max Richter, a touch of of what it is to be human. She presents listeners with with a more heightened sense of anxiety and distress. monolith’s career legacy and rightly revered catalog. synths, and a voice whose sensual, skeptical, smoky Liberace, Walt Whitman, and Deacon’s unadulterated a complicated, albeit spirited vision of what it could On the second batch of songs, Leaneagh reevaluates husk recalls indie rock matriarchs like Jenny Toomey vocals – sets the scene with a Zen-like yearning that will mean to truly engage with another person, to give a her past, difficult personal experiences and bring in a and Susanne Vega. This is TORRES at her most inviting leave you instantly enthralled. But don’t worry: You’ll be small piece of oneself over to someone else without sense of insight, strength, and light. and beguiling. dancing your ass off by the time “Sat by a Tree” hits. expectation. THE LUMINEERES WOLF PARADE PET SHOP BOYS THE WOOD BROTHERS JACK BROADBENT III THIN MIND HOT SPOT KINGDOM IN MY HEAD MOONSHINE BLUE DUALTONE SUB POP X2/AWAL HONEY JAR RECORDS CROWS FEET RECORDS The Lumineers’ new album III is audacious: every Every moment spent gazing at our screens is Hotspot – the new album from legendary electronic/ The Wood Brothers’ new studio album Kingdom In Hailed as “the new master of the slide guitar” by the note, every syllable, and every moment of silence in oversaturated with content, an ever-accelerated news sardonic duo Pet Shop Boys – was mostly written and My Mind represents a reckoning of sorts, examining Montreux Jazz Festival, and “the real thang” by the between is emotionally charged. 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